Amanda Nervig was already good at math when she enrolled in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, which is why she took to the Brother KH 930 like a geek to Comic-con.
The ominously named Brother knitting machine is Nervig's BFF, helping her speed through the creation of brightly colored scarves, dresses, sweaters and vests. There are usually a few knocking around Spool on 18th Street.
Nervig got her Brother for $700 on eBay. She programs her designs into her machine's computer using basic analog technology, plugging in patterns and colors of yarn as ones and zeros. But she can't just program the thing, walk away and let the machine do the rest -- a dishwasher, it ain't. She has to change the program as often as the pattern requires, row by row, and has to manually zip the weaving carriage across the needles. A scarf pattern, for instance, is 17 rows by 56 stitches.
"If
you spend enough time screaming and swearing at it, the possibilities
are really endless," says Nervig of the Brother. "Some days it doesn't
like me. But when it's working, it's slick."
Nervig, a Des Moines native, graduated from KCAI in 2008. For her senior project, she created a series of dolls, each one an homage to one of her friends. "Even if it didn't look like the person physically, it was them," she says.
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